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- W. A. HUDSON. PROCESS OF MAKING GIGARETTBS.

No. 587,826. Patented Aug. 10, 1897.

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UNITED STATES "PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM AROH HUDSON, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. V

PROCESS OF MAKING CIGARET'TES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters lPatent No. 587,826, dated August 10, 1897. Application filed April 30, 1896. Renewed December 22, 1896- Serial No. 616,685. (No model.)

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ARCH HUD- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have inventedv certain new and useful Improvements in the Process of Making Cigarettes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inven tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists in the novel features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one form of apparatus which I have contemplated using in carrying out my process, and said process is fully disclosed in the following de scription and claims.

Referring to the said drawings, Figural represents a side elevation of a machine by means of which my process can be carried into effect. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the same- In carrying out my process I continuously fold a continuous paper wrapper about a tobacco filler, forming a continuous cigarette or stem, which is then severed into individual or single cigarettes, the ends of the paper wrapper of which are crimped or tucked, forming when. completed what is known in the trade as tucked cigarettes.

In the drawings, Arepresents the frame of the machine heretofore referred to, in which is mounted a station'ary cigarette-forming tube B, constructed and arranged to hold the wrapper around the filler as the wrapper is drawn through the machine.

0 represents the tobacco carrying'and forming belt, carried upon suitable rollers c c, onev of which is a driving-roller;aportion of the belt passing longitudinally through the tube B, as is usual in cigarette-machines.

1) represents a tobacco-hopper located above the rear portion of the belt 0 and provided with a stirrer cl, and E represents a roll of paper of the required wid th for a cigarettewrapper, supported revolubl y at the rearend of the machine.

The paper e is led from the roll E beneath a'guide-roll e and laid upon the belt C beneath the tobacco-hopper and is fed through the machine by frictional o-ma with the belt.

Adjacent to the forward end of the tube is a longitudinally-reciprocating carriage F,

having a passage f therethrough exactly in line with the tube B, so that the continuous stem passes from the tube through the said passage in the carriage. the carriage adjacent to ering device consist-ing in this instance of a vertically-movable rotating knife or cutterdisk. This knife G is mounted on a vertical slide 9 and is provided-with a train of gears,

one of which engages a stationary rack secured to the knife supporting frame g, so that by raising andloweriug the slide g and the knife theknife/will be rotated.

Forward ofthe'knife the carriage F is providedwith'a' recess above and a recess below the passage f and communicating therewith. In these recesses are arranged the upper tucking-fingers h h and the lowertucking-fingers h h, each of whichis mounted upon a transverse shaft, the shafts of each pair of'tucking-fingers being preferably geared together for joint movement. Motion maybe imparted to the tucker-shafts and their respective fingers in any desired way. The reciprocation of the carriage is effected in this instance by means of a' pitrnan connection from a shaft I,

which is driven by the driving-shaft by means of gearing, as shown, and in a similar manner the vertical reciprocation of the cutterv 5 The apparatus herein describedforms no 1 slide 9 is effected.

part of my present inventionfas it is shown, described, and laimed in my application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 616,947, filed December 24, 1896, and it is therefore not do go scribed with more particularity herein.

The operation of the apparatus in carrying out my process is as follows: The hopper is filled with tobacco,

and the machine is "started.

tobacco without clogging. The tobacco is de- On the rear end of the tube Bis a sev oo the paper is placed'in engagement with the belt 0 beneath the hopper,

, il -he stirrer f Y (which in this instance is connected with the, reciprocating carriage) insures the feed of livered in a narrow stream upon the paper on I00 the belt, and in passing with the belt through the tube B the paper is wrapped or folded around the tobacco in the usual manner to carriage by the oncoming stem will have both form a continuous stem. As no pasteis used ends crimped or tucked. It is not necessary ordinarily the edges of the paper wrapper in carrying out my invention to have the will overlap one another more than is usual tucking devices tuck the adjacent ends of in pasted cigarettes. The cutter will be lowtwo severed portions of the stem, as Imay ered across the path of the continuous stem prefer to tuck simultaneously the two oppoat intervals, so as to severportions of the desite ends of each severed cigarette, asshown carriage is moved forward a distance equal to until the line of division between the stem which is pushed out of the passage of the sired length for individual cigarettes before and described in my application for Letters tucking, and the mechanism is so timed that Patent, Serial No. 616,64, filed December 22, 40 the cutter is operated while the carriage is 1896.

moving with the stem and at the same speed, thereby securing a straight even cut. The

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described process of making cigarettes which consists in wrapping a continuous wrapperaround a continuous tobacco filler forming a continuous stem, then forming separate cigarettes from said stem with f half the length of a cigarette before tucking, and as. it'moves backward the same distance and moves at the same speed as the continuously-moving stem it will allow the right. length for a cigarette to pass through it before it begins its next forward movement; As the carriage moves rearwardly the oncoming stem pushes the severed cigarette the paper crimped at each end of the cigarette, substantially as described. V 2. The herein-described process of making cigarettes, which consists in forming a 0011 A tinuous wrapped stem then, severing and I crimping to form cigarettes with the paper 5 crimped at both ends, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM ARCH HUDSON; v Witnesses:

L. P. WHITAKER, J. D. KINGSBERY. l

and the severed cigarette comes in a line inid- Way between the tuckers of each pair. The tuckers will'then-be operated while the carriage is moved forward with the stem and cigarette and will tu'ck or crimp the adjacent ends of the stem and the severed cigarette. As the process is repeated each cigarette 

